Successful extrapolation of an f-element synthetic method to the pseudo light lanthanoid, aluminium

Jacinta M Bakker, Leonard J Barbour, Glen B Deacon, Peter C Junk, Gareth O Lloyd, Jonathan W Steed

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Abstract

A redox transmetallation/ligand exchange reaction between Al metal, Hg(C6F5)(2) and 3,5-di-tert-butyl-pyrazole (tBu(2)pzH) in tetrahydrofuran (thf) yields [Al(tBu(2)pz)(3)(thf)] in which the six coordinate aluminium atom has two eta(2)- and one eta(1)-tBu(2)pz ligands. By contrast an analogous reaction in 1,2-dimethoxyethane (dme) gives the organoaluminium complex [Al-2(tBu(2)pz)(3)(C6F5)(2)(OCH2CH2OCH3)] in which each aluminium atom has an eta(2)-pyrazolate and a C6F5 ligand and the Al atoms are bridged by an eta(1):eta(1)-tBu(2)pz ligand and a 2-methoxyethoxide ligand. In addition, [Al(tBu(2)pz)(3)] was isolated from the reaction mixture in a different form from that previously reprinted. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2720-2725
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Organometallic Chemistry
Volume695
Issue number25-26
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2010
EventOrgano-f-Element Chemistry at Pacifichem 2010 - Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Duration: 15 Dec 201020 Dec 2010

Keywords

  • Redox transmetallation/ligand exchange
  • Aluminium complexes
  • Pyrazole and pyrazolates
  • High Z'
  • Crystallography
  • BEARING ETA(2)-PYRAZOLATO LIGANDS
  • MOLECULAR-ORBITAL CALCULATIONS
  • PYRAZOLATE COORDINATION MODES
  • ARYLOXIDE COMPLEXES
  • CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES
  • MULTIPLE MOLECULES
  • ALUMOXANE HYDRIDE
  • EARTH-METAL
  • CHEMISTRY
  • REACTIVITY

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